Neoproterozoic basin evolution in Fennoscandia, East Greenland and Svalbard

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Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-43

  Nystuen, Johan Petter ^a   Andresen, Arild ^a   Kumpulainen, Risto A ^b   Siedlecka, Anna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CAMBRIAN; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIKE SWARM; EDIACARAN; EMPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GLACIATION; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARCTIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; FENNOSCANDIA; FINNMARK; GREENLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 44649118731     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2008/v31i1/006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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